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            <h1 class="title">The Executive Branch</h2>
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                The Executive Branch of the United States government is headed by the President of the United States, who oversees a vast organization consisting of several advisory offices within the <a href="/us/exec/eop">Executive Office of the President</a>, a number of independent agencies, many of which have significant regulatory functions, and fifteen executive departments organized into functional areas.

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                <h2 class="title"><a href="/us/exec/eop">Executive Office of the President</a></h2>
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                    To provide the President with the support that he or she needs to govern effectively, the Executive Office of the President (EOP) was created in 1939 by President Franklin D. Roosevelt. The EOP has responsibility for tasks ranging from communicating the President&apos;s message to the American people to promoting our trade interests abroad. Overseen by the White House Chief of Staff, the EOP has traditionally been home to many of the President&apos;s closest advisors.<span class="footnote">Office description from <a href="http://www.whitehouse.gov/administration/eop/">EOP website</a>.</span>

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                <h2 class="title"><a href="/us/exec/cia">Central Intelligence Agency</a></h2>
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                    The Central Intelligence Agency was created in 1947 with the signing of the National Security  Act by President Harry S. Truman. The act also created a Director of Central Intelligence (DCI)  to serve as head of the United States intelligence community; act as the principal adviser to  the President for intelligence matters related to the national security; and serve as head of  the Central Intelligence Agency. The Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act of 2004  amended the National Security Act to provide for a Director of National Intelligence who would  assume some of the roles formerly fulfilled by the DCI, with a separate Director of the Central  Intelligence Agency.<span class="footnote">Agency description from <a href="https://www.cia.gov/about-cia/index.html"> CIA website</a>.</span>

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                <h2 class="title"><a href="/us/exec/cftc">Commodity Futures Trading Commission</a></h2>
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                    Congress created the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) in 1974 as an independent agency  with the mandate to regulate commodity futures and option markets in the United States. The  agency&apos;s mandate has been renewed and expanded several times since then, most recently by the  Commodity Futures Modernization Act of 2000.<span class="footnote">Agency description from <a href="http://www.cftc.gov/aboutthecftc/index.htm">CFTC website</a>.</span>

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                <h2 class="title"><a href="/us/exec/ag">US Department of Agriculture</a></h2>
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                    The US Department of Agriculture provides leadership on food, agriculture, natural resources, and  related issues based on sound public policy, the best available science, and efficient management. <span class="footnote">Agency description from <a href="http://www.usda.gov/">USDA website</a>.</span>

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                <h2 class="title"><a href="/us/exec/hhs">Department of Health and Human Services</a></h2>
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                    The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is the United States government&apos;s  principal agency for protecting the health of all Americans and providing essential human  services, especially for those who are least able to help themselves.<span class="footnote"> Agency description from <a href="http://www.hhs.gov/about/">HHS website</a>.</span>

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                <h2 class="title"><a href="/us/exec/hs">Department of Homeland Security</a></h2>
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                    The Department of Homeland Security, established by the Homeland Security Act of 2002, coordinates federal agencies responsible for maintaining domestic security in the United States and responding to natural and man-made disasters. 

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                <h2 class="title"><a href="/us/exec/treas">Department of the Treasury</a></h2>
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                    The Treasury Department is the executive agency responsible for promoting economic  prosperity and ensuring the financial security of the United States. The Department  is responsible for a wide range of activities such as advising the President on  economic and financial issues, encouraging sustainable economic growth, and fostering  improved governance in financial institutions. The Department of the Treasury operates  and maintains systems that are critical to the nation's financial infrastructure, such  as the production of coin and currency, the disbursement of payments to the American  public, revenue collection, and the borrowing of funds necessary to run the federal  government.<span class="footnote">Agency description from  <a href="http://www.treas.gov/education/duties/">DOT website</a>.</span>

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                <h2 class="title"><a href="/us/exec/en">Department of Energy</a></h2>
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                    The Department of Energy&apos;s overarching mission is to advance the national, economic,  and energy security of the United States; to promote scientific and technological  innovation in support of that mission; and to ensure the environmental cleanup of the  national nuclear weapons complex.<span class="footnote">Agency description from <a href="http://www.energy.gov/about/index.html">DOE website</a>.</span>

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